Notes on Rhode Island Ornithology. I^ 



Grey-cheeked Thrush {Hylocic/da alicics). — Two were observed in 

 our yard at Fort Adams, October 7,1899; one seen near Fort Adams, 

 R. I., May 20, 1900. 

 Fort Adams, Newport, R. I. Louis di Zerega Mearns. 



A Large-billed Water Thrush's Nest taken in R. I. — On May 20th 

 while on a collecting trip with Mr. H. S. Hathaway we stopped on a bridge 

 over a small stream in Kent County and heard the song of a Louisiana 

 Water Thrush (^Seiiirus moiact'lla^, and went into the nearby woods in an 

 endeavor to locate a nest. We worked our way up the stream, examining 

 the roots of every upturned tree and every location it seemed possible for 

 these birds to breed in, and finally gave it up in disgust and started back 

 to the road, and in passing along the foot of a steep bank near the stream, 

 I saw a good looking situation and going nearer to examine it more closely 

 a female Water Thrush flew almost into my face disclosing her nest and 

 fine eggs. The nest was a bulky aiFair composed of leaves and coarse 

 grass, lined with finer grass and a few hairs and was placed in a depres- 

 sion in bank underneath the exposed roots of a tree growing on top of 

 bank, and was well hidden. The eggs were somewhat incubated, and the 

 nest was only a few feet from the running stream. I know of no record 

 of the eggs of this species having been taken, although several have 

 reported seeing young birds. 

 Providence, May 22, 1900. F. E. Newbury. 



First Record of the Greater Redpoll (^Acanthus linaria rostrata) in R. L 

 — On the afternoon of March 14, 1S96, at East Providence from a flock of 

 about twenty Redpolls, which were feeding in white birches, I shot six 

 specimens, two of which have since been identified as Greater Redpolls, 

 (^Acaiithus linaria rostrata^. They were $ 's all in the immature plumage- 

 South Auburn. H. S. Hathaway. 



Another Cape May Warbler Record. — Mrs. Julia M. Hill writes me 

 that on May 20, 1900, with her son, she observed a Warbler, which from 

 her careful description leaves no doubt as to its identity as a male 

 Dejidfoica tigrina, in a snowball bush at Chepachet. Later in the day 

 she saw it again, or possible another individual, in an apple tree. 



Editor. 



Birds Observed at Sakonnet Point and Vicinity. — In a brief visit to 

 Sakonnet Point from June 2 to June 6, 1900, the following birds, mainly 

 residents, were observed. The country under observation extended about 

 a mile north from the point and four miles east to Tunipus Pond, while 

 a visit was made to Cormorant Rock which lies offshore about three miles 

 west of Sakonnet. The point and the land along shore is for half a mile 

 inland bare of trees, except three small islands in the marsh north of 

 Warren's Point which are covered with a tall growth of oaks and on each 



